The Todd Pletcher-trained Violence makes his 3-year-old debut today with regular jockey Javier Castellano as the 9-5 favorite in the Grade II Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

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Churchill Downs has changed the method in which horses earn their way into the Kentucky Derby if more than 20 are entered for the May 4 race, abandoning preference based on graded-stakes earnings in favor of a tiered points system based on 36 races. For the next four weeks, the points kick up to 50-20-10-5 for the first four finishers. Churchill has estimated that 40 points should comfortably get a horse into the Derby, with 30 points potentially the "bubble."